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Winter Counts (a closer look ) – PowerPoint II. You will be shown textual representations of winter count images. Draw an image of the event described. Compare/contrast your drawing with the original keeper of the winter count. Good Luck! . The Lone Dog Winter Count. Click. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The Lone Dog Winter Count
Winter Counts (a closer look) – PowerPoint II
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You will be shown textual representations of winter count images. Draw an image of the event described. Compare/contrast your drawing with the original
keeper of the winter count. Good Luck!
Winter Counts (a closer look) - PowerPoint
Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1840 – 1841)
They stole many horses from the Snakes [Shoshoni].
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American Horse says that his father, Sitting Bear, and others stole 200
horses from the Flatheads (Corbusier 1886:140). American Horse has this
for 1840-41, too. For 1841-42 see also: Rosebud, Flame, Lone Dog, Major Bush, No Ears, and Swan… Visit
http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html for additional information.
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Winter Count: Flame (1843 – 1844)
Buffalo is scarce; an Indian makes medicine and brings them to the suffering.
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Mato Sapa says: Dakotas were starving; made medicine to Great Spirit by painting buffalo head on their lodges; plenty came (Mallery
1886:118-19). See Rosebud, Lone Dog, and Swan. … Visit
http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html for additional information.
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Winter Count: Swan (1859 – 1860)
A Minneconjou Dakota, named Big Crow,was killed by the Crow Indians.
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Notes: He had received his name from killing a Crow Indian of unusual size (Mallery 1886:123). Several other
calendars record this man's death. See also Good, Flame, Lone Dog,
Major Bush, and No Ears. Rosebud marks it as 1860-61. Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
for additional information.
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Winter Count: : Battiste Good (1877 – 1878)
Crazy Horse came to make peace and was killed with his hands stretched out winter.
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Notes: This refers to the well-known killing of the chief Crazy Horse while a
prisoner (Mallery 1893:327). The Oglala warrior was killed when taken
into custody at Fort Robinson, Nebraska. See also American Horse,
Cloud Shield, No Ears, and… Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
for additional information.
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Winter Count: Long Soldier (1880 – 1881)
Soldiers fired into Sioux and captured Indians.Infantry, artillery and cavalry represented.
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Winter Count: Rosebud (1880 – 1881)
Children sent to school.
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Notes: Battiste Good records this event for the previous year, as do
the counts of Firethunder and Wounded Bear. This may note the
first time Sicangu children were sent to school, as indicated by the human
figures inside a log building. See Good's winter count. Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html to
view additional winter counts.
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Winter Count: Cloud Shield (1788 – 1789)
The winter was so cold that crows froze to death.
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Several counts mark this year when the winter was so cold, crows froze, including Rosebud, Flame, Good and White Cow Killer. White Cow Killer
calls it "Many-black-crows-died winter" (Corbusier 1886:132).
American Horse andNo Ears mark it for the following
year 1789-90. Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
to view additional winter counts.
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Winter Count: : Lone Dog (1800 – 1801)
Thirty Dakotas were killed by Crow Indians.
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Notes: The device consists of thirty parallel lines in three columns, the outer
lines being united. In this chart, such black lines always signify the death of Dakotas killed by their enemies. The
Absaroka or Crow tribe, although belonging to the Siouan [language] family, has nearly always been at
war with the Dakotas… Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
for additional information.
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Winter Count: Lone Dog (1803 – 1804)
They stole some "curly horses" from the Crows.
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Notes: Some of these horses are still on the plains, the hair growing in closely
curling tufts. The device is a horse with black marks for the tufts. The Crows are known to have been early
in the possession of horses (Mallery 1893:273). White Cow Killer calls it… Visit
http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html for additional information.
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Winter Count: Flame (1813-1814)
Many Indians died of cold (consumption) (Mallery 1886:108).
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Notes: Most accounts agree that the disease was whooping cough. The discrepancy between diseases may simply be one of translation. Some
diseases were new to the Indians, having been brought to North America
inadvertently by Europeans.Because these were new
illnesses, Indian people… Visit http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
for additional information.
The Lone Dog Winter Count
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Content provided by:Smithsonian: Natural Museum of Natural History
Lakota Winter Counts -An Online Exhibit- http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
Lesson and PowerPoint provided by:South Dakota Office of Indian Education
& South Dakota Public Broadcasting